lichen display

Related literature on Hypotrachyna sinuosa
habitat: mixed conifer and deciduous forest, Other lichen in the same habitat

Characteristics of Hypotrachyna sinuosa (Sm.) Hale

  • Soredia: on ridges or lobe margins
  • Lobules: no
  • Isidia: no
  • Podetia: no
  • Reproductive Body: apothecium rare
  • Body Type: foliose
  • Unstratified: no
  • Life Form: lobes tightly attached
  • Hollow lobes: no
  • Central cord: no
  • Lobe shape: strap-shaped not channeled
  • Rhizines: brush-like or squarrose
  • Cilia margin: no
  • Simple perforate: no
  • Cyphellae: no
  • Pseudocyphellae: no
  • Lobe Color, inside: white
  • Lobe Color, underneath: black-no tomentum
  • Surface Color: yellow-green
  • Surface texture: ridged-weakly
  • Wrinkles: lower surface
  • Cephalodia: none
  • Papillae: no
  • Fibrilles on Branches: no
  • Spore type: non-septate
  • Spore size (um): 4 - 10 X 8 - 16 um
  • Lobe Width: less than 5 mm
  • Lobe Range Width:
  • Medullar C Reaction: negative
  • Medullar K Reaction: positive y- to orange
  • Medullar KC Reaction: positive red
  • Medullar P Reaction: positive orange
  • Areolate: not areolate
  • Algae: green
  • Iodine Test:
  • Cortex C:
  • Cortex K: positive yellow
  • Cortex P:
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School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University
and
Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University
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